The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-31

lions which were represented at his court.
AT this time Venice was rich and power
lui, and her arrogant ambassador, to show
ms superiority over the Others, went into the
Cars presence wearing his hat. The savage
Muscovite was so enraged at this lack of
courtesy that he called his attendants and
had the hat nailed to the head of the luckless
Venetian.
So much, indeed, is thought to be ex-
pressed by the wearing or not of the hat
that the English House of Commons finds no
better way to show its superiority than by
allowing its members to retain their hats
while in session privilege probably unique
among the great legislative ASSEMBLIES of the
world, and which is not allowed in the
House of Lords. This matter was
well illustrated in France in 1889 at the
convention of the States General, at
which Louis XVI. presided. At the first
meeting
THE KING REMAINED COVERED,
according to custom; the mobiles also did not
remove their hats. Then the King saw, tc
his amazement, that the third estate" the
representatives of the people, remained Gov
cred also. 1t is not too much TO say that the
Kings simple action of removing his hat, an
example Immediately followed by all the
Others, by preserving peace at the mo-
ment postponed although for only short
period, the terrible revolution which follow
ed. For another historical story of the hat
we have that tradition which so stirs the
blood of every schoolboy, of the naughty
tyrant Gesler, his hat on the pole in the
market place, and the humble Tell who re-
fused to bow TO it.
Caricaturists have always represented
Uncle Saln-as wearing a tall white beaver
hat-real beaver, not silk.
AT meeting of the creditors of a defunct
grocer not many years ago, it was reported
that the bankrupt's books had not beer
properly kept, in proof of which it was
shown that one customer, whose name and
residence were unknown to the grocer, had
bought large amount of goods, which were
always charged to 1.-THE man with the white
hat"
Many old white hats are sacredly pre-
served in English families as mementoes OF
the severe political battles that took place
years ago before the passage of the reform
bill, when the white hat was the badge OF
the Radicals and the appearance of one al
the political meetings of their opponents
was the signal for disturbance Our col
lege boys boast many trophies of similar
character, for a hat rush. is considered
great sport in every well-regulated college
and woe to the unlucky freshman who first
wears silk hat, unless he is well able to de
fend it.
The hat often serves as a receptacle for
papers for business men, and travellers
often use it to hold their tickets. A sharp
but penniless passenger on a Western
bound express train had no ticket, and
when he saw the conductor coming he
leaned out of the window and began to con
template the scenery, The conductor spoke
to him, and, getting no reply, shook him by
the shoulder, crying: Ticket ticket
please Down fell the travellers hat, anC
across the plains by the winds. The hatless
passenger Indignantly demanded why hi:
hat had been knocked off, and how coulc
he pay his fare when his ticket was in the
hatband? The uususpicious conductor sale
no more about a ticket, and before tbs
train reached its destination he had given &
hat from his own wardrobe to the honest
traveller